Any good (fictional) spy uses biometrics as authentication – Bond used fake fingerprints, Charlie’s Angels copied someone’s retina scan, and Chuck’s intersect has facial recognition technology. Yet as companies have implemented biometric-based authentications, it’s been laughably easy to beat. Fingerprint locking technology was once thought to be the gold standard in security. Fingerprint sensors popped […]
Amazon charges a mere $79 for their new budget model Kindle, but according to a recent analysis from IHS iSupply, the e-reader costs approximately $84 to manufacture. Yes, that makes this Kindle $5 more to make than it costs for you to own it. Before you go wondering if Amazon’s marketing department has gone batty, remember […]
ZDnet has learned that Adobe plans on ditching their existing Flash Mobile platform to refocus on HTML5. Lots of us have had love/hate relationships with Flash, but no one more so than Apple. The hardware giant refused to support Flash on their mobile devices and often blamed the multimedia delivery solution for problems on the […]
It’s easy to sit here and make lots of jokes about HP and their recent drama. The musical CEOs, the abortive interest in selling off their hardware division, and especially their roller coaster ride with webOS. It’s also easy to be upset about their constant failure to make a go of a solid, well-respected operating […]
The stories keep on coming about Apple vs. competitors battling in out in the courtroom. Just last week, a small Spanish tablet manufacturer by the name of NT-K decided to sue Apple for anti-competitive behavior, after succeeding in defending itself against a patent infringement suit Apple brought against them. Motorola just won a patent infringement […]
First free video, now free books. Amazon has launched their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, available to Amazon Prime members, at no additional cost. Users may borrow select titles for an unlimited time, without due dates or extra fees. There are 5,000 available titles, and the selection seems reasonably wide, including titles from the New York Times […]
Thanks to hackers, the Nook Color has long been an unofficial tablet. Now Engadget has discovered that Barnes & Noble plans on making it official by releasing the Nook Tablet on November 16. You can snag something that looks a lot like a Nook Color, but is lighter, has twice the memory, and won’t need […]
I’m sure you know the details, but I’ll briefly go over them just in case you don’t. IBM recently named Virginia Rometty as their new CEO. She’s been with the company since 1981 when she was hired as an engineer. For the last 30 years, she’s been using that big beautiful brain of hers, her […]
Welcome back to the Tablet Thursday digest! HP has surprised everyone by updating a tablet — just not the one anyone is interested in. HP is replacing their business-oriented Slate 500 with the Slate 2. Sporting the same Intel Atom chip found in most netbooks, the Slate 2 also rocks a 32 GB Solid State […]
According to V.P. of Marketing Tim Deluca-Smith at wireless service firm WDS, “Android is a bit of the Wild West” when it comes to handset reliability. Their recent study covering 600,000 technical support calls they took from customers in America, South Africa, Australia, and Europe shows higher percentages of hardware failures in various Android phones […]
